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Julia Evans' Git cheat sheet (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Git cheat sheets are a dime-a-dozen but I think this one is awfully concise for its scope.

Visually covers branching (WITH the commands -- rebasing the current branch can be confusing for the unfamiliar)
Covers reflog
Literally almost identical to how I use git (most sheets are either Too Much or Too Little)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

I like the terminal because:

It's the same everywhere. You don't lose knowledge by switching to a company that has a different git client.
You know what's going on, mostly. Most clients will assume you want to do things one way and do it that way for you, especially when it comes to fetching/pulling/merging. I'd rather go through all the steps in the terminal myself so I can assure myself that I won't be reliving various past broken merge traumas.
If you like the terminal generally, you're probably also doing other stuff there anyway. So you can get used to running whatever commands to test, lint, push, etc. without switching windows or even taking your hands off the keyboard and it becomes muscle memory.